Good morning Ohio, it’s Election Day! Tell all your friends and family to vote. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. You can check your voter registration, and find your voting precinct and polling location, by checking with the Ohio Secretary of State here. If you are in line to vote by 7:30 […]
With the results of Tuesday’s general election, the Ohio Supreme Court could become a 7-0 fully Republican bench, keep the status quo of one Democratic justice, or see a slight shift with a second Democrat. Two justices are attempting to defend their seats: Republican Justice Dan Hawkins and Democratic Justice Jennifer Brunner. Should Hawkins and […]
Ohio’s competitive congressional races could play a role in determining which party holds power in the U.S. House. There are currently 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, one independent and two vacancies in the U.S. House. Midterm elections typically favor the party that is not currently in power. “I think if the Democrats are on track to […]
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
Ohioans cast more than 1.7 million ballots early this year, either in person, through the mail, or a drop box. That total is 17% higher than the early vote total for the last midterm election in 2022. Democratic voters outpaced Republicans slightly — casting roughly 468,000 ballots to the GOP’s 432,000. Unaffiliated voters, being the […]
The American Medical Association says the Trump administration has unlawfully imposed a rule that could threaten health coverage for at least 140,000 Ohio Medicaid recipients. The AMA made that statement last week in a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a lawsuit in which Columbus is a plaintiff. It seeks to stop an element of planned […]
In 2024, Donald Trump won the presidency with the support of 44% of Hispanic voters, suggesting that a major realignment in party preferences might be underway. But just two years later, it appears much of that support has eroded. Sixty-one percent of Hispanic voters say they will now support Democrats in the midterms, including 11% […]
New York City is preparing to send two DSA members, presumptive election night winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, to Capitol Hill. DSA-backed candidates made historic gains in this year’s Democratic primaries, with at least five expected to join current DSA members Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the House. But can socialism really […]
As President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections, signaling his intentions to challenge results unfavorable to Republicans, we go to Washington, D.C., where a federal judge ruled Monday night that the Department of Justice can deploy election monitors to polling sites across the country, as long as they are […]
As voters in the United States head to the polls, we take a look at what’s on the ballot with Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “This is a consequential election, and voters are going to be able to vote on democracy itself, whether they can participate in elections, how congressional […]
WSJ: U.S. Carries Out Strikes Around Strait of Hormuz on Eve of Midterm Elections, SCOTUS Rejects Trump Admin’s Attempt to Force California to Set Aside 20,000 Mail-In Ballots, Federal Judge Denies Attempt by NAACP to Block DOJ from Deploying Election Monitors, Michigan Democratic Senate Nominee Dr. El-Sayed Raises $2.4 Million in One Day, Aide to […]
Vanity Fair recently published an excerpt from longtime investigative reporter Matthew Cole’s new book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East. The excerpt alleged that during President Trump’s first term, Saudi and Emirati leaders secretly put at least $2 billion into bank accounts and gave access […]
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